Browsing Theses & Dissertations by Subject "Decision making"

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The effects of a brief recuperative nap on vigilance and the speed-accuracy trade-off

Robert, Collette (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)

Sleep deprivation can impair a number of cognitive faculties. Daytime napping has been proposed as way to remediate the negative consequences of sleep deprivation. Yet the evidence that short naps improve cognitive performance ...
Perceptual versus motoric attention : an fMRI investigation of the speed-accuracy tradeoff in decision-making

Blagdon, Ryan Andrew (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2010)

Selectively attending to either the sensory qualities of a stimulus or the response required by a task can influence the speed and accuracy of performance. Prior fMRI studies have identified medial and lateral prefrontal ...

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